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Original Title:	The Red Tent
ISBN:	0312353766 (ISBN13: 9780312353766)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Isaac (Bible), Dinah (Bible), Jacob (Bible)
Literary Awards:	Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2001), Boston Author's Club Award (1998)

The Red Tent

Anita Diamant

Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 501474 Users | 18787 Reviews

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Title	:	The Red Tent
Author	:	Anita Diamant
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2005 by St. Martin's Press (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Christian Fiction. Christian. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance

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Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's society.

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Okay, so I knew before I read this book that it wasn't written for my demographic. I'm an adult male. This is a woman's book through and through. With that disclaimer in place, take what I'm about to say worth a grain of salt: I really didn't care for this book.The Red Tent is the "Fried Green Tomatoes," "Steel Magnolias," or "The Notebook" of the Old Testament set. It tracks the life of a quaternary character in Genesis, Dinah, from before her birth to after her death. Diamant takes massive,

Are you ready to go into the Red Tent? JACOBS DINASTY: THE REALITY SHOW We have been lost to each other for so long. My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault, or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing. Disfunctional family falls short to describe Jacobs household.Nowadays, it would be easily a high-rating TV reality show!Jacob, a weak man put into the stressing place of being

I thought the first half of The Red Tent was very compelling. I liked the focus on the female relationships - a complex web of love, teamwork and jealousies - and enjoyed seeing the story behind the story we know. My favourite parts were near the beginning when we learn about Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah growing up and becoming Jacob's wives, and their subsequent forays into motherhood.Unlike some readers, I had no problem with the female-centric feel to the novel. In fact, it seems like a

Anita Diamant - image from her site The Red Tent offers a female perspective on the biblical tales of Jacob, father to the twelve tribes of Israel, and his family, people with some serious issues, who would be right at home on HBO, with copious quantities of blood and betrayal to hold ones interest. Dinah was the only daughter of Jacob. It is through her eyes and her retelling of others tales that we see the world of that time, the social organization within the family, how they related to other

The Red Tent is (very) loosely based on the story of Dinah in Genesis, and it is a book that is very easy to read. Dinah's tale is one that deserves fleshing out; in the Bible it is an interesting though undeveloped and uncertain chronicle. The author does a fairly decent job of developing her female characters, but her male characters are largely flat, stereotypical, and unnecessarily negative. In the Bible, the characters of Jacob and Joseph are more well-rounded; they are humans with both

While I enjoyed the parts about midwifery and wish that a place like the Red Tent really did exist, I think that the author got the story all wrong. She turned all the men in the book, including men like Jacob and Joseph, into sex crazed, egotistical, superstitious bigots. I think she took WAY TOO much creative license and basically re-wrote the bible to her liking. In some part she didn't even try to be historically accurate with what the bible says.For example, she says that Joseph and

What of me? Did he mention me? Did he repent of what he did to me? He said nothing of you. Dinah is forgotten in the house of Jacob.*2018 Re-read *Recently I watched the 2014 two part episode of this book starring Minnie Driver, Rebecca Ferguson, and Iain Glen. Like any good reader that has read a book years before a screen version(and Goodread) appears, I wanted to see how my memory has held up and if this book still has that "wow" factor that I recall. Although I still would consider this